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Acquired erythropoietic protoporphyria as a result of myelodysplasia causing loss of chromosome 18
8 May 2006
Abstract excerpt
We report a patient aged 73 years, who developed erythropoietic protoporphyria with typical photosensitivity, at the same time as she was diagnosed as having myelodysplastic syndrome. The myelodysplastic clone in her bone marrow completely lacked one of the two copies of chromosome 18. As chromosome 18 is the locus of the ferrochelatase gene, we postulate that this chromosomal deletion led to reduced synthesis of...
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